HERZOGENAURACH, Germany – Former BMW Executive Dr. Jochen Schröder has been hired by Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG as General Manager of the company’s newly established E-Mobility business division.

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Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG develops, manufactures, and supplies automotive and industrial products and system solutions for customers in Germany and internationally. The company offers automotive products, such as engine, transmission, chassis systems, and electric mobility systems. It also provides industrial products, such as FAG SNS plummer block housings; INA and FAG cylindrical roller bearings; bearing test rigs for wind power; turbine bearings for water power; rolling bearings for the paper industry; FAG axle-box generators for the railway industry; bearing supports and system solutions for motorcycles; sensor bottom brackets for bicycles; production machinery; rolling bearing...

LUDHIANA, India – Taking into account the strong push towards e-mobility with which the Indian government is aiming to (partly) tackle the smog problems in its cities, the country’s biggest bike makers are switching to electric bicycles as well as electric scooters. Next to Hero also India’s second biggest bike maker – Avon Cycles – is increasingly focusing towards ‘electrification’ of its offering.

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E- rickshaws and goods carriers

Onkar Singh, MD of Avon Cycles Ltd. explains “To keep up with the changing consumer preferences, existing models are being upgraded while a couple of new ones are in the development stage. Also in the three-wheeler segment we are presenting new models that are to compete in the rickshaw market as well as in goods carrier segment. Models like our ‘E-Rick’ and goods carrier ‘E-Kart’ introduced recently,” said Onkar Singh, MD, Avon Cycles Ltd.

SFGATE is the Hearst-owned website sister-site of the San Francisco Chronicle and the go-to online source for all news and entertainment related to the Bay Area.

SFGATE began in 1994 as one of the first major news websites in history, ushering in a new era in information and interaction with digital news, and even winning a Pulitzer prize. SFGATE reaches 30 million unique readers each month, ranking it among the top five newspaper websites nationally.

A 7 Thousand-year-old man died after crashing his electric bicycle in Danville on Monday afternoon, a town spokesman said.

The bicyclist, identified by the Contra Costa County coroner's office as Danville resident Keith Howard, was riding his bike on Highland Drive near Lonesome Road at about 2:55 p.m. Monday when he hit a speed bump, town spokesman Geoff Gillette said.

Howard went airborne, then landed and crashed. He was taken to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, where he was pronounced dead later that afternoon, Gillette said.

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Visits to the websites have decreased by 87% since the paywall was introduced, from 21 million unique users per month to 2.7 million. In April 2009, the timesonline site had a readership of 750,000 readers per day. In October 2011 there were around 111,000 subscribers to The Times' digital products.

For more than 50 years The Australian Financial Review has been the authority on business, finance and investment news in Australia. It has a reputation for independent, award-winning journalism and is essential reading for Australia’s business and investor community.

"I love it when people hate things at a festival," Wesley Enoch declares. It's not something you'd expect the artistic director of the Sydney Festival to say. But this celebrated Indigenous playwright doesn't mind if audiences love or hate a performance, just so long they try something new.

"The opera, the ballet, the art gallery. These are your cultural bread and butter," Enoch says over lunch at a cafe near his apartment in Surry Hills.

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During the festival proper, Enoch trundles from event to event on his electric bicycle, chatting to artists, wooing donors and dining with supporters.

CES, the consumer technology showcase held each year in Las Vegas, highlights what are meant to be the latest and greatest advancements in technology. Things meant to make you go "whoa" many times over, at least according to this year's official CES billboards.

But as one observer remarked, this year's felt more "no" than whoa, with wacky gadgets you don't need and voice recognition robots that failed to understand commands or didn't respond at all.

For the most part, the show seemed to be about artificial intelligence or voice recognition being integrated into everything, from TVs and cars to fridges and toilets.

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A device you can attach to your bicycle to turn it into a hybrid electric bicycle in 30 seconds also seemed useful.

But it seemed clear that ever since Microsoft and various other tech giants began to drop out of CES, primarily due to it not suiting their product roadmap unveiling cycle, it has lost a little bit of its flare.

The more interesting tech is now usually reserved for companies to announce themselves. Apple exclusively reserves its product launches for itself to unveil, while Samsung typically leaves its smartphone disclosures to Mobile World Congress.

... and May the Gawds Bless those, whom American Benjamin Franklin pointed out:

Two years ago, in January, my husband and I walked into a foreclosed house on a tree-lined street in Bedford-Stuyvesant that no one had lived in for 22 years.

“I could really see us having kids here,” he whispered into my ear as we tiptoed over the detritus of squatters and failed contractors.

For the first three years of our marriage we had been living in a series of rentals, but we dreamed of owning, and this was a whole house. A long-neglected brownstone in need of a ton of work, yes, but a house nonetheless.

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It had been years since I’d sat on that saddle, but there didn’t seem to be any other option. Manhattan is mostly flat, but the bridge that takes you there — the Manhattan Bridge — is a mini mountain, sloping up toward its apex for what feels like an eternity.

My first attempt to summit was a dismal failure. I was gasping for air after only a few moments and had to dismount and walk, dragging those two wheels behind me.

Some days, as I huffed my way over that bridge, my eyes would fill with tears. Other days I would arrive at the bridge’s foot in a full-fledged panic attack, sobbing on the phone to whatever friend would answer. It was too long and high, and I was too tired and weak. That damn bridge, like my life, felt insurmountable.

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Everything you see in the picture willing to trade for electric bicycle injured on the job no license free transportation please help

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Manchester Township is a township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. The township is noted for containing the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, the site of the infamous Hindenburg disaster of May 6, 1937. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 43,070, reflecting an increase of 4,142 (+10.6%) from the 38,928 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 2,952 (+8.2%) from the 35,976 counted in the 1990 Census. The 2010 population was the highest recorded in any decennial census.

If Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte ever visits Ireland, it's a given that action man Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will go for a spin on a bicycle with him, although we're still in the ha'penny place compared to the Netherlands where cycling is the primary form of transport. But we are catching up.

Initiatives like cycle lanes, greenways, city bikes and tax rebates have all contributed to the huge increase in cycling. This week I'm looking at different aspects of cycling, while the table shows some prices you can expect to pay.

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Electric bikes used be considered only for older people but that's changing. "Teenagers are buying them now for school runs," says Ginty. For maximum speeds of 25km, you don't need tax, insurance or a licence - over that and it's considered a motorbike.

The Local is an English-language digital news publisher with local editions in Sweden, Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Austria and Italy. Each site, while alike in appearance, has separate editorial teams, each focused on its respective market.

Paris's public cycle hire company said Friday it would hit its contractor with a one-million-euro bill for a chaotic rollout of new bikes that has infuriated cyclists.
The grey Velib bikes -- usually ubiquitous across the French capital -- have been virtually absent for weeks because of the botched handover from previous contractor JCDecaux to Franco-Spanish firm Smovengo.

Autolib' Velib' Metropole, the public-private consortium that runs the scheme, pronounced itself "dissatisfied" and said it would penalise Smovengo a million euros ($1.22 million) as set out in its contract.

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In October, Paris city hall announced a snazzy redesign of the bikes that would result in a third of them going electric, with the grand re-launch taking place on January 1.

But as of Friday, only 113 of the bike system's docking stations were working -- well short of the 600 that had been promised by the New Year, with 1,400 supposed to be working by the end of March.

As the world’s largest music and audio platform, SoundCloud lets people discover and enjoy the greatest selection of music from the most diverse creator community on earth. Since launching in 2008, the platform has become renowned for its unique content and features, including the ability to share music and connect directly with artists, as well as unearth breakthrough tracks, raw demos, podcasts about ebikes and more.

The Bicycle Product Suppliers Association and PeopleForBikes conduct an annual E-bike Summit for stakeholders in the ever-expanding electric bicycle phenomenon in North America.

Shimano hosted the 2017 event in their Irvine, California headquarters, and this is the first of two panel discussions held during that session.

The Daily Hampshire Gazette is a six-day morning daily newspaper based in Northampton, Massachusetts, and covering all of Hampshire County and southern towns of Franklin County, Massachusetts. The newspaper prints Monday through Saturday, with the latter labeled "Weekend Edition".

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The city of Northampton is the county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of Northampton (including its outer villages, Florence and Leeds) was 28,549.

Northampton is known as an academic, artistic, musical, and countercultural hub. It features a large politically liberal community along with numerous alternative health and intellectual organizations. Based on U.S. Census demographics, election returns, and other criteria, the website Epodunk rates Northampton as the most politically liberal medium-size city (population 25,000–99,000) in the United States.

The Sun is a daily newspaper based in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States, serving towns in Massachusetts and New Hampshire in the Greater Lowell area and beyond. As of 2011, its average daily circulation was about 42,900 copies. The paper, often called The Lowell Sun to distinguish it from other newspapers with similar names...

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Greater Lowell is the name given to the city of Lowell, Massachusetts and its suburbs which are found in Northern Middlesex County, Massachusetts, the Merrimack Valley, and Southern New Hampshire.

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) -- It's exactly what Lindsey Vonn was hoping for -- a dominant victory one month before she goes for gold at the Olympics.

Vonn amped up her preparations for the Pyeongchang Games by winning a World Cup downhill by a large margin Saturday while Italian rival Sofia Goggia avoided a major crash with the help of a safety air bag.

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"This is just the momentum that I was hoping for and that I was planning on going to the Olympics," added Vonn, who celebrated by riding an electric bicycle -- a gift from the local organizing committee -- around on the snow in the finish area.

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. The newspaper publishes two web sites: SFGate, which has a mixture of online news and web features, and sfchronicle.com, which more closely reflects the type of articles that typically appear in print.

A division of Metroland Media Group and publishers of www.insidetoronto.com and community newspapers: Etobicoke Guardian, York Guardian, Bloor West Villager, Beach-Riverdale Mirror, East York Mirror, North York Mirror, City Centre Mirror and Scarborough Mirror.

Bend is a city in, and the county seat of, Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is the principal city of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bend is Central Oregon's largest city, and despite its modest size, is the de facto metropolis of the region, owing to the low population density of that area. Bend recorded a population of 76,693 at the time of the 2010 U.S. Census, up from 52,029 at the 2000 census. The estimated population of the city as of 2016 is 91,122. Bend's metro population was estimated at 165,954 as of July 1, 2013. The Bend MSA is the fifth largest metropolitan area in Oregon.

Bend bicycle shop owner Kevin Gorman says 2017 was his best year since starting the business, which began two decades ago as a web-based store selling accessories and niche brands.

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Sunnyside and Hutch’s are also embracing electric bikes, which can also be found at two separate specialty stores, Pedego Electric Bikes and Bend Electric Bikes. U.S. sales of electric bikes tripled over 36 months to $64.9 million through July, according to NPD Group. They appeal to both baby boomers and millennials for different reasons, said Powell, of the NPD Group.

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Most electric bikes are being sold through specialty shops, and bikes costing $2,000 or more are driving sales, according to NPD Group. In contrast, national mountain bike sales are driven by models that cost $300 to $500, he said.

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Westport is a town located in Connecticut, along Long Island Sound within Connecticut's Gold Coast in Fairfield County, Connecticut. It is 47 miles (76 km) northeast of New York City. The town had a population of 26,391 according to the 2010 U.S. Census, and is ranked 22nd among America’s 100 Richest Places as well as second in Connecticut, with populations between 20,000 and 65,000.

Hehe... "ranked 22nd among America’s 100 Richest Places"... with lots of money to spend on fancy bicycles to keep up with racy Grrrl/Ladies riding those fancy new "ebike"-thingees...

Two youngsters come up with a top-notch idea for a novel bicycle, which, with minor tweaks, is an eco-friendly marvel.

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Nayan and I, while studying at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) in Dehradun, wanted to create a bicycle which could easily switch from manual operation to electric mode within minutes.

The Mercury is a daily newspaper, published in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia...

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Tasmania; abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as "Tassie") is an island state of Australia. It is located 240 km (150 mi) to the south of the Australian mainland, separated by the Bass Strait. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world, and the surrounding 334 islands. The state has a population of around 519,100 as of June 2016, just over forty percent of which resides in the Greater Hobart precinct, which forms the metropolitan area of the state capital and largest city, Hobart.

Talking Point: Make cycle tracks part of Hobart's traffic solution:

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And for those people who think riding a bicycle is only for the young and fit, take a look at electric bicycles. They still help you exercise but cut out the effort needed to climb Hobart's hills. Only when we make it easier for more people to ride bikes can we truly reap the rewards of moving and connecting...

My mother remembers Horse Stables on Hollywood Boulevard back when she was a girl. Me, I rode the last original electric Red Car streetcars in Southern California with my grandmother as a 5-year old. Soon after General Motors with the help of Standard Oil pushed public transportation back several decades. Today, we move back to the future with the electric car.

As much as things change they remain the same. Today North America’s Auto industry is grudgingly moving forward with the electrification of personal transportation, purportedly in a quest for zero Auto-related exhaust emissions. But truthfully, the momentum we witness today in the EV evolution is driven by government regulation, and a growing sense of the driving public’s “Green” urgency, brought on by a now undisputable change in global weather patterns.

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China is currently the fastest growing electric car market in the world, followed by Scandinavia and Europe. The U.S. is pulling up the rear, but we’ll get there. Growth in electric bicycle segment is unprecedented. Today’s young consumer doesn’t question electric power, they expect it. From Hoverboards to skateboards, to electric bicycles, go-carts, and ½ scale electric cars, jeeps, and quads, a new generation grows up with electric. For them, the mainstream electric car will be the norm within a decade -- that’s the logical progression of personal transportation.